Reviews of Boats, Motorcycles and other Fun Machines

The Royal Akarana Yacht Club, Auckland, New Zealand is delighted to announce the 2008 New Zealand National Keelboats Direct Link
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Pop star couple Rhianna and Chris Brown have been snapped riding their Seadoos together in Maryland whilst taking a break for their current tour.
What strikes me about these pictures are the incredible size of Rhianna’s ear rings. Those hoops are bigger than their hat. There must be some sort of safety hazard involved in those. [...]

Adsorbed Natural Gas (ANG) is a technology that’s been around for a while but has been getting more attention for the obvious reason that gasoline prices are forcing us to look at alternatives and I wondered recently which technology would eventually win. ANG conversions for motorcycles are interesting because they can be used to convert [...]

In the first official act of this year’s Olympic sailing regatta we had the boat and board draw yesterday morning in the administration building across the road from the athlete’s village. About ten o’clock the Laser, Radial and RSX sailors their representatives scampered out of the air conditioning of the athletes village, hit the wall [...]

Last year we had an article about the Munch Mammut replicas being built by Mike Kron of Germany. Over the weekend I had a chance to look one over closely at Vintage Motorcycle Days 2008 at Mid Ohio. Looking at a line of bikes from a distance the Mammut immediately caught my eye because it [...]

The sailing team completed another satisfying two-boat training session in Lorient on Sunday achieving the goals the team had set for itself… Direct Link
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The Quadski, coming after the <a href=”http://www.exceljetsports.com/jetskiblog/jet-ski/nereus-jet-ski”>Nereus</a>, is another strange jet ski invention. As the name suggests, it’s a hybrid of a quad bike and a jet ski. I would guess that these things handle poorly as both a bike and a pwc, but they certainly look entertaining.
There is something very cool about the way [...]

An interview with Belinda Stowell (AUS), gold medalist at the Olympic Games 2000 in Sydney, in the 470 Women’s. Direct Link
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The other American cruiser company, Victory Motorcycles, is celebrating their 10th anniversary and their 2009 lineup is out. After introducing the Victory Vision last year, changes this year are a bit less dramatic. There’s a new 106 cubic inch Freedom V-Twin and a new Kingpin Low. The rest of the lineup seems to have only [...]

Last words with the skippers on the pontoon: Liz Wardley (Sojasun):??“This is my 5th?participation and I am really happy to be here. Each year it is slightly different, this year it is the course, the competitors, and new … Direct Link
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